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AT&T is testing a new service plan for netbooks that sounds suspiciously like cell phone plans, typically costing $50 for the hardware and $60 per month for service.
Answer: you start using it, and it sucks everything else up into a black hole. If that sounds like a cheap shot, consider this column by Gene Quinn of IPWatchdog.com: "Open Source Race to Zero May Destroy Software Industry." That's a scary headline if there ever was one, and I read the piece with the growing sense that I had Heard This One Before. I had, just in a different skin.
I've seen a lot of speculation and opinions recently that mobile operating systems like Android will take over the netbook market, pushing Windows aside. HP is already playing with Android on their netbooks. It has been tried before. I don't see that happening in the near or far future.
Guantanamo Bay is one of the world's controversial prisons. This may be its final chapter. With unprecedented access, National Geographic has the story you haven't heard. Both sides, told from the inside, before its doors close forever. Click to learn more and go Inside Guantanamo >> natgeotv.com/guantanamo |
New SourceOne platform takes a modular approach to archiving content and focuses strongly on electronic discovery.
Nokia's head of sales and manufacturing Anssi Vanjok, recently said, "I don't think the future is very promising [for WiMax]." Nokia ended production of its WiMax-equipped N810 Internet Tablet several months ago. Is he right, does WiMax have a real future?
Twitter is almost as popular in Washington as lobbyist-funded junkets. Elected officials use Twitter as a channel to talk directly with the people, communicating from fact-finding missions to Baghdad and during the State of the Union Address. Sen. John McCain even did a Twitter interview. But who are the top political Twitterers? I've compiled a quick-and-dirty list here; if I'm leaving anyone out, please let me know.
The Transport Workers Union of American ("TWU") has launched a playful-looking web site (http://americanexeccheck.com), in hopes of prompting outrage over executive pay generally...and, in particular, the potential bucks American Airlines' top execs might make.
If you own a website or have signed up as an affiliate to promote a website then one of the things you will need to do is to social bookmark the sites so that people will come to visit.
Joining all the social bookmarking sites can be a major chore in & of itself but then when it comes time to actually bookmark your sites it can become an even bigger challenge.
Once you've joined the bookmarking sites you would of course like to be able to bookmark your favorite sites but not all of them have the choice. Adding all the links to your browser and then having to put in your usernames, passwords for each and every bookmarking site you wish to add your favorite site to...now there is a solution. There are more than one of these but the one that we've found most useful is www.OnlyWire.com
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New tools for the Android platform are being approved all the time. The latest include an Android-optimized version of Evernote and a new calling card application. Additionally, Google has opened up shop in Taiwan to better support Android hardware makers.
In this, our first ever "ReviewCam", Socialcast CEO founder Tim Young demos his company's namesake service while we're "rolling tape" on the demo. For $1 per user per month Socialcast offers its customers a private service that includes Twitter-style microblogging, Del.icio.us-style social bookmarking, and FriendFeed-style lifestreaming. But for brownie points, Socialcast also integrates with the actual Twitter, Del.icio.us, and other social networks like YouTube, Digg, Facebook, and Google Reader.
Facebook is where I hang out in my underwear, metaphorically speaking. That's why I'm unfriending all my business contacts.
Microsoft officially announced its own application store for Windows Mobile devices last month during World Mobile Congress, though it wasn't news to most people. It now has a mobile Web site that looks like a placeholder for the new site. There isn't much there, but it shows progress is being made.
Blue whales are the planet?s largest creatures, yet we hardly ever see them. Their calls travel thousands of miles, but we can barely hear them. Now, National Geographic embarks on a mission to witness what nobody ever has in these waters; blue whales eating and giving birth. Click to Learn More natgeotv.com/bluewhale |